About

PETDICOM is an extension of 3D Slicer that implements calculation of the Standard Uptake Value (SUV) correction for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images. The SUV approaches implemented include:

• SUV body weight
• SUV lean body mass
• SUV body surface area
• SUV ideal body weight

The extension contains three modules:

• SUVFactorCalculatorCLI: a command line interface module that generates SUV factors and stores the result as a DICOM Real World Value Mapping (RWVM) object
• DICOMPETSUVPlugin and DICOMRWVMPlugin: DICOM plugins that implement loading and automatic calculation of SUV for PET DICOM series, and loading of the DICOM RWVM objects, respectively.

Availability

Installation: DICOMPET can be installed as an extension to 3D Slicer via 3D Slicer Extension manager. Once installed, the DICOM plugins will be invoked automatically when you load PET series from 3D Slicer DICOM Browser. You can also run the SUVFactorCalculatorCLI in the batch mode using the command line interface.

Documentation:

• link
• Slicer discourse post on performing PET SUV conversion in batch mode

Source code: link

Publications

• Fedorov A, Clunie D, Ulrich E, et al. DICOM for quantitative imaging biomarker development: a standards based approach to sharing clinical data and structured PET/CT analysis results in head and neck cancer research. PeerJ. 2016;4:e2057 link. - dataset discussed in this paper contains DICOM RWVM objects generated using DICOMPET extension

Grants support

• U01 CA140206
• U24 CA180918